LEAH GARCHIK

The latest W pictures newlyweds Kimberly Guilfoyle and Eric Villency, lovey-dovey and about to have a baby, and here's what's relevant in San Francisco: By the time she moved to New York in January 2004, her marriage to Gavin Newsom was "basically over," says W. "I'd been very unhappy for a while," says Guilfoyle. In March of that year, two months later, she told The Chronicle: "To these people who question our marriage, I want to ask: How is your marriage doing? Mine is just fine. If you have respect and love for each other, there's no reason this can't work out great for everyone."

She returned to San Francisco in November 2005 to be at Mayor Newsom's side when Prince Charles and Camilla came to visit. "I'm my own person in San Francisco," she told W. "I was invited as myself."

As to the
Westfield San Francisco Centre
's Wednesday night party for 2,500 guests,
Ellen Newman
heard
Jim Flood
, whose family owns the building across Market Street from the mall, say, "It's a historical night ... the first time caviar has ever been served south of Market." That's not all that was served;

McCall's
chef
Lucas Schoemaker
dished up 18,000 pieces of sushi. Let it be said that this is a city that knows how to use chopsticks.

Other comments in the surging crowd ranged from those looking for opportunities in business ("Right now, this is the retail experience in the United States," said San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau chief Joe D'Alessandro); to those looking for opportunities in romance ("Those chicks are giving you night club attitude," said one gent. "I mean, they're standing in front of Borders"); to those just looking ("Where did we lose Charles?"). By the end of the evening, dancers were writhing in cages, hot dogs and chili were being dished up in the food court. Behind the gates of the Bristol Farms supermarket, which was to open in 12 hours, green peppers and lettuces were arranged as precisely as Rockettes at Radio City, but there were miles to go before the workers slept, and protective coverings stripped from new shopping carts covered the floor with a snowdrift of paper scraps.

-- A week ago today, KFRC's "Cammy & Dean Show" was winding down when
Cammy Blackstone
and
Dean Goss
were called into an office. They were told the station's oldies format, '70s and '80s music, was changing in 10 minutes. They were being let go, and they had to leave the building immediately. On the air,
Don McLean
's " 'American Pie' changed into a throbbing disco beat," says Blackstone, and that was that. The new format, called "Movin," is '80s and '90s dance music. Sue Hall, who'd done the midday show for 16 years, was let go, too; the guillotine fell on more than half a dozen people. After 13 years at the station, Blackstone was allowed back into the building to collect her things on Wednesday.

-- At the Berkeley Rep booth at the Folsom Street Fair, someone came up to front-of-house manager Emily Fleisher and asked, "Are you the dominatrix named Mother Courage?"

-- "The Seven Day Itch" filmed at Luella on Hyde Street on Wednesday, and Chris Wong says that members of the restaurant staff were delighted to find themselves extras in the movie. The restaurant's food will be shown onscreen, but the cast ate catered food.

-- The after-party for Macy's Passport, a show directed by Larry Hashbarger, was at Asia SF, a place he partially owns. Guests included pop opera recording artist Vittorio Grigolo, who I'm told was astounded that Nya, the woman who performed Beyoncé's "Ring the Alarm," had been born a boy. Dollar, the horse that played a role in the production, did not make this fete. It would have been a waste anyway; horses are usually oblivious to gender adjustments, except their own.

The sign for Shag Restaurant and Bar, on the former site of La Felce in North Beach, "may be the shortest restaurant ever named in San Francisco," says
Dave Heventhal
. It went up last Wednesday and was taken down on Thursday.

P.S.: Larry Bain, who sells what he calls "heart-healthy conscience-friendly" hot dogs at his Let's Be Frank hot dog stand outside AT&T Park, is giving $1 for every hot dog sold, and $1 for every beer sold at the Acme Chophouse, to the Strike Out Violence program, being celebrated at the ballpark Saturday. Ironically, the game is against the Dodgers, the team most likely to inspire violence by Giants fans. Play nice, boys.

Public eavesdropping

"Next time we are traveling with the hamsters, and the kids stay home."

Husband to wife, returning to SFO from Cabo San Lucas, Vacation Overheard-33 by Lesley Gordon-Mountian.